One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
ALAN COOPERAs these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
-
-
No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
ALAN COOPER -
To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
ALAN COOPER -
It’s harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.
ALAN COOPER -
Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
ALAN COOPER -
Computer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me.
ALAN COOPER -
I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
ALAN COOPER -
Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
ALAN COOPER -
It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
ALAN COOPER -
Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
ALAN COOPER -
In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won’t dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.
ALAN COOPER -
English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
ALAN COOPER -
To scenes by memory’s silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho’ it sprung From one united heart.
ALAN COOPER -
Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
ALAN COOPER -
If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
ALAN COOPER -
I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don’t want to keep making the same record over and over and over.
ALAN COOPER






